Wallpaper supporting bracket



April 1950 s. E. GEORGE 2,505,109

WALLPAPER SUPPORTING BRACKET Filed June 24, 1948 INVENTOR. 6 raw/9971f. 650965 Patented Apr. 25, 1950 UNITED STATES EATLENT @FFECE 2,505,109 WALLPAPER SUPPORTING BRACKET Stewart E. George, Hartford, Conn.

Application June 24, 1948, Serial No. 34,877

1 Claim.

This invention relates to wall paper supporting brackets and more particularly to such de vices as may be used on the common type of stepladder or the like.

An object of this invention is to provide awall paper supporting bracket which may be attached to a folding stepladder or the like for supporting a strip of wall paper thereon prior to its being placed on a wall.

A further object of this invention is to provide a wall paper supporting bracket which is ex tremely simple in its construction and will greatly facilitate the hanging of wall paper.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a wall paper supporting bracket, the use of which will eliminate the necessity for the paper hanger to carry the pasted Wall paper strip up the stepladder with him prior to its being pasted on the wall.

Further objects and advantages of this invention will be more clearly understood from the following description and the accompanying drawing in which:

Fig. 1 is an elevational plan view showing a wall paper supporting bracket embodying my invention' and attached to the shelf of a stepladder.

Fig. 2 is an elevational side view of the said bracket.

Fig. 3 is an elevational end view thereof.

Fig. 4 is an elevational side view illustrating the manner in which the said wall paper supporting bracket is attached to a stepladder and used thereon.

As shown in the drawing, my improved wall paper supporting bracket may comprise a single piece of wire which is bent, as shown, to provide a pair of upwardly curved legs 5 and h, each of which is bent outwardly at its end portion to provide trunnions l and 8 for the purpose to be hereinafter described. The bracket is also provided with laterally extending shoulders 9 and it which are joined by a horizontal supporting bar H; the said shoulders extending beyond the legs 5 and 6 in order that the bracket may ac commodate wall papers of larger widths.

As illustrated in Fig. 4, my improved wall paper supporting bracket may be attached to the folding shelf I2 of a conventional stepladder l3 by placing each of the trunnions 1 and 8 through a screw cycle which has been screwed into the top of the said shelf at the opposite sides thereof.

The resiliency of the wire which forms the bracket willretain the trunnions I and 8 in their respective screw eyes as shown. The curved legs 5 and 5 of the bracket will then rest upon the shelf l2, thus supporting the bracket thereon in the manner illustrated in Fig. 4, wherein the supporting bar l i extends above and beyond the edge of the shelf !2.

A strip of wall paper 15,.which has been previously coated with a suitable paste on its inner surface it and folded over upon itself with the ends 51 and i3 thereof positioned at the intermediate portion of the strip, in the conventional manner, is then hung across the supporting bar I l with the said ends of the paper projecting upwardly as shown in Fig. A. With the wall paper in this position, the operator may grasp the end i! and lift the entire length of wall paper from the bracket while unfolding it to its full length. The wall paper may then be placed on the wall in the conventional manner and the operation repeated.

if desired, a plurality of said strips of wallpaper may be supported upon the bracket in superimposed position to facilitate the hanging operation.

When the operator has finished using the wall paper supporting bracket it may easily be detached from the stepladder shelf thus enablin the ladder to be used for other purposes without interference from the bracket.

I claim:

A wall paper supporting bracket formed from a length of wire and having a pair of spaced leg portions, means at the free ends of said leg portions for securing said bracket to a supporting device, the leg portions being curved and extending outwardly and upwardly with the portions thereof adjacent the free ends adapted for engagement with said supporting device and a paper supporting bar extending between the outer ends of said outwardly extending portions on a plane above the said free ends of the bracket.

STEWART E. GEORGE.

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